“I could have gotten angry or down; could have said something silly like ‘Our engine department let us down,’ but not only did I not believe that, saying it would have been like lobbing a grenade into our garage. We’d worked for a year and a half to build a cohesive team. I wasn’t about to tear that…”— Jeff Gordon, amazon.com
“I must learn to keep silent. I must learn to take myself seriously. To have more mobile eyes and a less mobile face. To keep a straight face when I make a joke. Not to applaud every joke made by others. Not to show the same colorless geniality toward everyone. To disconcert at the right moment by ke…”— André Gide, amazon.com
“Sometimes because we can’t face what’s been said or what’s been done, we do the unthinkable in response to the unbearable: we escalate. This is ego in its purest and most toxic form.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com